THESE are the Spanish holiday hotspots popular with British sunseekers that have been blighted by Islamic extremist cells.

Terror maps published by the Ministry of the Interior show favourite island destinations like Majorca, Tenerife, Gran Canaria, Fuerteventura and Lanzarote, as well as tourist-magnet resorts on the Costa del Sol and Costa Blanca, have all seen special security operations and several arrests in a crackdown on Islamic jihadists.

The maps shows Spanish security forces took part in 186 anti-terror raids and carried out 186 arrests since 2012.

The number of arrests so far this year stands at 47 from 24 operations.

Anti-terror swoops have been carried out across the length and breadth of the mainland and as well as on the Balearics and Canary Islands.

The maps shows 50 suspects were detained in 22 operations carried in Barcelona over the last four years while Spanish capital Madrid saw 26 arrests in eight anti-terror raids over the same period.

More than a dozen arrests have been made since 2012 along the popular holiday resort region of Costa del Sol and Costa Blanca.

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Spanish police arrest a terror suspect

The maps have been published on the website of the Spanish Ministry of the Interior.

A spokesman for the ministry said the information was being released in response to demands from the public.

The spokesman said: “The website of the Ministry of the Interior has two infographics that reflect all operations and arrests of jihadist terrorism in Spain this year, so that everyone can see graphically where the arrests practiced by security forces have taken place.

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Spanish police take part in an anti-terror operation

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“These two maps with details for provinces and municipalities include the distribution of operations and arrests in 2016 and the fight against jihadism since 2012.”

Islamists inspired by Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda murderous extremist group were responsible for Spain’s deadliest terror attack on the morning of March 11 2004 when 192 people were killed and more than 2,000 injured as ten explosions ripped through four commuter trains in Madrid.